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Cloakware is an Irdeto company and part of the Naspers Group.
Irdeto empowers companies to protect and monetize their digital assets and maximize return on content with innovative and reliable software technologies, end-to-end solutions and services including middleware and customer care and billing. Irdeto purchased Cloakware in December 2007. The company works with an impressive list of leading industry partners and offers products including conditional access, digital rights management, business support systems and set-top box software solutions.
Irdeto's goal is to help operators increase content revenue by offering best-of-class security solutions supporting a wide range of revenue models. With nearly 40 years of providing pay television technology and proven success in deploying security solutions across the globe, Irdeto continues to offer innovative products to more than 500 customers around the world. The Irdeto group of companies also includes Entriq, who provides content management and distribution solutions and services. More than 500 customers worldwide trust Irdeto to secure and enable the delivery of their valuable content across digital broadcast, IP, mobile, enterprise and government networks. Irdeto solutions currently enable simple to advanced business models on more than one billion devices and applications.
Founded in 1969, Irdeto employs over 850 people in 25 offices across the globe, including the dual corporate headquarters in Amsterdam and Beijing. The company is a subsidiary of multinational media group Naspers (JSE: NPN), which includes a wide range of pay TV, Internet, instant-messaging, technology and publishing businesses.
For more information on Irdeto, please visit www.irdeto.com.
Irdeto and Cloakware's shared vision
Together, Irdeto and Cloakware's shared vision is to deliver cross-platform software-based security that is easy, effective and flexible - an industry first.
Security is becoming an issue of paramount importance as new media business models develop and consumers consume content on an ever-wider variety of devices. Enterprises and device manufacturers have the perception that security is complicated and inconvenient - it is difficult to understand the standards, complicated to integrate, and current solutions are not interoperable.
Security is moving away from being hardware-based to software-based. Irdeto and Cloakware offer a full range of software-based security technology which is more flexible, interoperable, transparent and easier to implement across a broad range of devices.
Software has the advantage of being downloadable and renewable. These technologies are applied in enterprise, military, Pay TV, internet and mobile applications.
